Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The style or spirit of Greek culture, art, or thought.
- noun The imitation of aspects of Greek culture, art, or thought.
- noun An idiom of the Greek language.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An idiom of the Greek language. Also
Græcism , and rarely Greekism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
word oridiom of theGreek language used in another language, especially forliterary effect - noun the
style ,spirit or othercharacteristics ofGreek arts andculture , or animitation of that style etc
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